Melnitz Movies/Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies: "The Sun"

Times

Tue Nov 24 at 7:30 PM

Venue

The James Bridges Theater (Melnitz 1409)

Melnitz Movies and the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Teresaki Center for Japanese Studies present: “The Sun”

“In the last days of August 1945, as the Japanese prepare to surrender to occupying American forces, Emperor Hirohito rummages around his palace, trying to make sense of the impending defeat and his own responsibility for it. In an unforgettably poignant performance by Issey Ogata, Hirohito is fully brought to life as an educated, ineffectual gentleman, aware of his fallibility but
trapped by rituals of adoration behind the mask of divinity. Aleksandr Sokurov, brings his customary imagistic brilliance to this tour-de-force of historical reconstruction. As controversial for its interpretative conjectures as it is visually arresting, ‘The Sun’ is a complex, important work by a major filmmaker.” – New York Film Festival

"A mind-boggling essay on the end of divinity and the pleasures of life as an ordinary mortal" -Olaf Moller, “Film Comment”

"One of the best films of the year." -James Quandt, “ArtForum”

The Sun” (2009)
DIRECTOR: Aleksandr Sokurov
WRITERS: Yuri Arabov, Jeremy Noble
CAST: Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi
Opens at Laemmle Theatres, November 27. A Lorber Films Release
In English and Japanese with English subtitles
115 min

Keywords

"the sun" 

Published

Thu Nov 12, 2009 in Screening

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